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Australian duo Dead Can Dance (consisting of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry) were an extraordinarily innovative band signed to the legendary 4AD label (becoming their highest selling artists), fusing medieval music with gothic undertones and ambient textures. The band has disbanded and reformed over the years since it began in 1981 – the most recent being the release of the album …

The unique and exotic sounds of Dead Can Dance, fusing medieval music with gothic undertones and ambient textures are detectable in the shimmering new track ‘Deshta (Forever)’ from Dead Can Dance members Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell. This follows the release earlier this year of the single ‘Noyalain (Burn)’ reviewed here. With Indian and Middle …

Australian duo Dead Can Dance (consisting of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry) were an extraordinarily innovative band signed to the legendary 4AD label (becoming their highest selling artists), fusing medieval music with gothic undertones and ambient textures. The band has disbanded and reformed over the years since it began in 1981 – the most recent …

Multi-instrumentalist, Peter Ulrich is probably best known for his time spent on influential record label 4AD, with Dead Can Dance and This Mortal Coil. He’s also received glowing accolades for his solo projects, most noticeably his debut,1999’s,  ‘Pathways and Dawns’, which has been described as ‘…the album The Beatles might have made had they signed …